God's Synergy

March 16

God's Synergy

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.— Romans 8:28

A physician prescribes some medicine for us and we set off to a pharmacy to have the prescription filled by a pharmacist.

Long ago when we took a prescription to a pharmacist, he would gather the various chemicals from his shelves and with mortar and pestle he’d begin to mix them together.

Now the interesting thing is that not infrequently there might be found among those various ingredients things which, of themselves, would be quite deleterious to our health, if not in fact, fatal.

For example, arsenic is found in many medicines and yet if you were to take it by itself it would kill you. But when all the ingredients in the prescription are mixed together properly, they provide something that is beneficial to your health and produces healing.

So it is in our lives. The Great Physician is at work in our lives, causing all things to work together for good for those who know Him and are called by Him. The root Greek word for working all things together is synergeo, from which we get the word synergy.

Romans 8:28 speaks of Gods synergy. It tells us that all things—everything that occurs in our lives—are working together for our good. Even the things which of themselves could have a devastating impact upon us become part of the good God has for us when those negative things are mixed in appropriate measure with the good things in His recipe for our blessing.

Can you think of a recent example in your life where God worked all things together for your good? Allow yourself to reflect upon the times when, although you could see no hope, good things came to you from His loving hand.